{"id":11026,"date":"2005-12-29T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/12\/ephemera-psnews-milestone-si-blog-ipods-etc.html"},"modified":"2005-12-29T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T20:00:46","slug":"ephemera_psnews_milestone_si_blog_ipods_et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/ephemera_psnews_milestone_si_blog_ipods_et\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephemera: PSNews milestone, SI blog, iPods, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague John Dowdell sometimes features &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2005\/08\/last_weekends_r.cfm\">Remaindered Links<\/a>,&#8221; entries that bring together links that may be of interest.  So, in that vein, here&#8217;s some ephemera I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the break: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruno Giussani ponders <a href=\"http:\/\/giussani.typepad.com\/loip\/2005\/12\/the_ipod_of_spi.html\">&#8220;the iPod of spin&#8221;<\/a>&#8211;i.e., how far one can stretch things to be &#8220;the iPod of this&#8221; and &#8220;the iPod of that&#8221;&#8211;set off by a newspaper christening &#8220;the iPod of toilets.&#8221;  Okay, it&#8217;s a lazy phrase, but product designers &amp; marketing hacks could emulate worse. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/the_real_inspiration_behind_the_ipod_3235.asp\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>The Smithsonian Institute has kicked off a new blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/eyelevel.si.edu\/\" \/>EyeLevel<\/a>.  The blog features thoughtful, detailed posts that mention&#8211;among many other things&#8211;Malcolm Gladwell, the strangeness of Edward Hopper, and Pennsylvania&#8217;s relationship with Cheez Whiz. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gridskipper.com\/travel\/washington-dc\/eye-level-smithsonian-artblog-141929.php\">Via<\/a>]\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.adobe.com\/type\/opentype\/main.html\">OpenType<\/a>, <i>SchmopenType:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/exactlocation.org\/\" \/>Levi Hammett<\/a> takes text design in a new direction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exactlocation.org\/dairy\/\" \/>Dairy<\/a>, a font (of sorts) that spells out your text in milk crates; try it and see. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>The brilliantly random <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundmagazine.com\/\" \/>Found Magazine<\/a> now offers an RSS feed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundmagazine.com\/index.php?fuseaction=finds.view&amp;fid=52\">Oh yeah.<\/a>  (Looking at the traffic log of blogs.adobe.com feels a bit like browsing these inscrutable found bits.  Why would someone keep searching for &#8220;subtly knife&#8221;&#8230;?  Is it somehow related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375823468\/sr=1-1\/qid=1135914536\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-5191092-0586417?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">armored bear battles<\/a>?) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/zesblog\/\" \/>Via<\/a>]\n<li>The Sundance Channel yesterday featured a fun, 2-minute overview (produced by Athletics) on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.athleticsnyc.com\/projects.php?id=33\">China Girl<\/a>,&#8221; a color calibration system used in film.  Looking down the row of monitors lining an Airbus on Tuesday, I was reminded of just how much color varies across devices (even those from the same manufacturer, installed at the same time) and how sorely the world needs a solution (the&#8211;wait for it&#8211;&#8220;iPod of color management,&#8221; maybe?).\n<li>And finally, since kicking things off in April 2005, PhotoshopNews.com has served <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2005\/12\/29\/over-1000000-served\/\" \/>more that 1,000,000 unique visitors<\/a>.  Congratulations, guys!<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague John Dowdell sometimes features &#8220;Remaindered Links,&#8221; entries that bring together links that may be of interest. So, in that vein, here&#8217;s some ephemera I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the break: Bruno Giussani ponders &#8220;the iPod of spin&#8221;&#8211;i.e., how far one can stretch things to be &#8220;the iPod of this&#8221; and &#8220;the iPod of that&#8221;&#8211;set off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}